The White House Deputy Chief is telling officials that they will “face justice.”

Link without paywall:https://www.thedailybeast.com/raging-stephen-miller-suggests-arresting-blue-state-governor-jb-pritzker/

Stephen Miller said that Governor J.B. Pritzker could be arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”

When asked by Fox host Will Cain on Friday under what authority a governor could potentially be arrested, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff said that the Department of Justice “has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.”

Miller’s statement comes after President Donald Trump claimed that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Pritzker should be “in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.”

On Oct. 23, the Illinois governor signed an executive order establishing the “Illinois Accountability Commission,” which will track “abuses” and hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “accountable” following the Department of Homeland Security’s launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren’t anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.